Lessons and Legacies V

Theodore Zev Weiss
Foreword

Ronald Smelser
Introduction

I. Context

Omer Bartov
Utopia and Violence: Visions of Perfection and Practices of Purification

Saul Friedländer
Ideology and Extermination: The Immediate Origins of the Final Solution

II. Perpetrators

Alvin Rosenfeld
Who Killed the Jews? Reflections on a Riddle

Peter Black
Officials of the Reich Central Office for Security

Henry Friedlander
The Administrators in the Concentration Camps

Michael Allen
Technocrats of Extermination: Engineers, Modern Bureaucracy, and Complicity

Hannes Heer
How Amorality Became Normality: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust

Peter Hayes
The Degussa AG and the Holocaust

Sybil Milton
The Case against Switzerland

Gitta Sereny
Questioning the Perpetrators

III. The Courts

Michael R. Marrus
History and the Holocaust in the Classroom

Robert O. Paxton
The Trials of Holocaust Perpetrators in France

Therkel Straede
Inside the "Aussenlager": Interpreting Survivors' Testimony of Jewish Slave labor in German Industry

Insa Eschebach
Interpreting Female Perpetrators: Ravensbrück Guards in the Courts of East Germany, 1946-55

Andrew Ezerailis
The Holocuast's Soviet Legacies in Latvia

IV. Memory and Historical Perspective

Donald Schilling
Representing the Holocaust in the General Histories of World War II

Renée Poznanski
Jews and Non-Jews in France during World War II: A Daily Life Perspective

David Bankier
The Future of the Jews after Hitler

Vojtech Blodig
Terezin and the Memory of the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia since 1945

V. The Second Generation

Alan Berger
Second-Generation Jewish Identity and "Working Through" the Shoah: Helen Epstein's Journey from Children of the Holocaust to Where She Came From

Rachel Feldhay Brenner
The Second Generation and the Problematics of Tikkun: A Reading of Alan Berger's Children of Job

Sara R. Horowitz
Filming the Generations: Holocaust Survivors and Their Children

Robert Melson
False Papers: The Tension between Testimony and Story in a Holocaust Memoir

Notes on Contributors